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type: "Bill"
title: "Healing arts: pregnancy and childbirth."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who meets specified qualifications. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to attend cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth and to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, including interconception care, family planning care, and immediate care for the newborn, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to practice with a physician and surgeon under mutually agreed-upon policies and protocols, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services or to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 667"
citation: "California SB 667 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healing arts", "pregnancy and childbirth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d14dcca-48b3-47ad-854c-baa0e1685026"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667"
source_hash: "c20688a1087b6873eb11f9ce998339e91bb485c7dbf67c9cd5d1972b0fff6472"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 667 (20232024) — Healing arts: pregnancy and childbirth.
(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who meets specified qualifications. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to attend cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth and to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, including interconception care, family planning care, and immediate care for the newborn, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to practice with a physician and surgeon under mutually agreed-upon policies and protocols, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services or to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66799INT)
2. **04/11/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66798AMD)
3. **04/19/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66797AMD)
4. **05/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66796AMD)
5. **09/07/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66795AMD)
6. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66793CHP)
7. **SB667** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667)
8. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66794ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **120** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB667 Dodd et al. Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- SB 667 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Schiavo — **790** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dodd — primary (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **2023-03-01** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2023-04-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 747.) (April 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-21** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2023-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1403.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-15** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bryan.
- **2023-07-13** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-07** Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3010.)
- **2023-09-07** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3251.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2742.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 497, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d14dcca-48b3-47ad-854c-baa0e1685026`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).